The Barefoot Musicians was founded by guitarist Katalin Koltai and singer Eva Bodrogi in 2006. Clarinetist Zsolt Bartek joined the group as its third permanent member in 2009.
The ensemble is founded on the notion that one's approach to music should always endeavor to be fresh and unencumbered -- hence, barefoot.
Through their years of formal training the musicians and collaborating artists have absorbed the traditions and foundational knowledge of their craft; still, their chief aim is to approach their music/art in the spirit of play, experiment and discovery, and to transmit this enthusiasm to a broader audience.
The ensemble share a passion about new music and the creation of interdisciplinary performances. They strive to bring the works of contemporary composers to the stage, as well as showing older works in a new light by playing them in combination with related modern pieces.
The goal of the three musicians is to provide artists from diverse fields opportunties for creative work and self-expression. Their projects, which have included chamber music, interdisciplinary performances, youth projects, and forays into contemporary experimental music, all aim to foster the open and candid – and thus "barefoot" - communication so vital to beginning a dialogue between artists and audience members of diverse backgrounds, as well as to making classical and contemporary music accessible to and enjoyable for a wider audience.
www.mezitlabaszeneszek.com
The ensemble is founded on the notion that one's approach to music should always endeavor to be fresh and unencumbered -- hence, barefoot.
Through their years of formal training the musicians and collaborating artists have absorbed the traditions and foundational knowledge of their craft; still, their chief aim is to approach their music/art in the spirit of play, experiment and discovery, and to transmit this enthusiasm to a broader audience.
The ensemble share a passion about new music and the creation of interdisciplinary performances. They strive to bring the works of contemporary composers to the stage, as well as showing older works in a new light by playing them in combination with related modern pieces.
The goal of the three musicians is to provide artists from diverse fields opportunties for creative work and self-expression. Their projects, which have included chamber music, interdisciplinary performances, youth projects, and forays into contemporary experimental music, all aim to foster the open and candid – and thus "barefoot" - communication so vital to beginning a dialogue between artists and audience members of diverse backgrounds, as well as to making classical and contemporary music accessible to and enjoyable for a wider audience.
www.mezitlabaszeneszek.com
The THReNSeMBle first appeared at the Bartók Festival where they played Pierre Boulez’s Dérive 1 as a reference piece and some compositions by young Hungarian and American composers connected to Boulez’s music. After this evening the Bartók Festival has asked Balázs Horváth to organize a concert for which pieces composed by young Hungarian composers should be selected. As the concert was very successful, the ensemble gathering at that time mostly students of the Liszt Academy of Music decided to continue playing together. Their goal became to perform either works of students studying composition or of those who recently graduated from the Academy, focusing also on maintaining continuous personal contact with the composers of the youngest generation.
THReNSeMBle performed some very important contemporary works this season, such as Donatoni: Arpège, Berio: O King, Boulez: Dérive 1, etc. to broaden their repertoire. They gave complete concerts as the István Vántus Contemporary Music Days in Szeged, the French Institute in Budapest as part of the Alma Mater series of the Liszt Academy, at the Kodály Art Festival in Kecskemét and also a joint concert of Slovak and Hungarian composers at Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In April, 2011 THReNSeMBle particpated at the Gaudeamus Interpreters Competition (the only competiton for performing contemporary music) in Amsterdam. In June, 2011 THReNSeMBly musicians recorded compositionson DVD by Samu Gryllus.
THReNSeMBle was asked to be the ensemble-in-residence of the Composition Seminar of the International Bartók Festival in Szombathely, 2010 where they not only practiced and performed pieces by students of the seminar but made the Hungarian premieres of tria ex uno by Georg Friedrich Haas and Parmi les Blancs et Noirs...at...Intervals...from the Cabin by Gyula Csapó.
In January 2012 THReNSeMBle gave a concert at the Festival Theatre of the Palace of Arts (Budapest) as part of the Mini-Festival. Beside performing Hungarian pieces they played the Hungarian premieres of paramyth (088) by Yannis Kyriakydes and Sextet by Georg Friedrich Haas.
www.thrensemble.com
THReNSeMBle performed some very important contemporary works this season, such as Donatoni: Arpège, Berio: O King, Boulez: Dérive 1, etc. to broaden their repertoire. They gave complete concerts as the István Vántus Contemporary Music Days in Szeged, the French Institute in Budapest as part of the Alma Mater series of the Liszt Academy, at the Kodály Art Festival in Kecskemét and also a joint concert of Slovak and Hungarian composers at Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In April, 2011 THReNSeMBle particpated at the Gaudeamus Interpreters Competition (the only competiton for performing contemporary music) in Amsterdam. In June, 2011 THReNSeMBly musicians recorded compositionson DVD by Samu Gryllus.
THReNSeMBle was asked to be the ensemble-in-residence of the Composition Seminar of the International Bartók Festival in Szombathely, 2010 where they not only practiced and performed pieces by students of the seminar but made the Hungarian premieres of tria ex uno by Georg Friedrich Haas and Parmi les Blancs et Noirs...at...Intervals...from the Cabin by Gyula Csapó.
In January 2012 THReNSeMBle gave a concert at the Festival Theatre of the Palace of Arts (Budapest) as part of the Mini-Festival. Beside performing Hungarian pieces they played the Hungarian premieres of paramyth (088) by Yannis Kyriakydes and Sextet by Georg Friedrich Haas.
www.thrensemble.com